DalekBaldwin

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by DalekBaldwin 7y ago
I've got a lot of rare stuff downloaded from Soulseek back in the day that I expect I'll never be able to find again. One of my most spine-tingling tracks is a performance of "Flowers Die" by The Only Ones, far better th
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by DalekBaldwin 7y ago
On the other hand, the end result is released in polished form for a reason. As Llewyn Davis said, "In the entertainment business, you’re not supposed to let your practice shit out. It ruins the mystique."
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by DalekBaldwin 7y ago
This breaks my workflow -- I almost never open the forgot-password email on the same machine I used to initiate the request. Usually I need to briefly access a personal account from somebody else's computer or my work computer, and whe
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by DalekBaldwin 7y ago
I once took a filmmaking class from Robert Mehnert who directed a documentary about the SR-71 at a time when its production was at risk of being discontinued. At first only a few hundred people in Congress saw it, but based on the size of t
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by DalekBaldwin 8y ago
I know this from audio samples used in the Music for Programming podcast. I always want to find out where various bits of dialogue in the podcast come from, but they're generally really hard to Google. It made me laugh to see that this
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by DalekBaldwin 8y ago
> Using Yale economist and recent Nobel-prize winner William Nordhaus’s $31-per-tonne estimate of the social cost of carbon, it amounted last year to $107 billion for energy-related emissions from oil and natural gas in the U.S. Within t
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by DalekBaldwin 8y ago
He starts with a simpler problem to elucidate the principle that is key to the original problem. Do continue reading.
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by DalekBaldwin 8y ago
The expected number of sons is 1, and the expected number of daughters is 1 (by the framing of the problem, in every possible scenario, there is exactly one daughter), but the expected value of the ratio is not 1:1. E[X]/E[Y] = E[X&#x2
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by DalekBaldwin 8y ago
Christopher Date and Hugh Darwen, in their work on type systems and the relational model, like to use the Principle of Incoherence: "A principle, sometimes invoked in defense of a less than fully successful attempt at criticizing some
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by DalekBaldwin 8y ago
And for more on the history and philosophy behind it: http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Condition-Handling-2001.h...
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by DalekBaldwin 8y ago
But it doesn't encode Maybe/Option in a composable way. Say you have a Map<T,Option<U>> and you look up a key. If the key is present but maps to None, you get Some None, but if the key is not present, you get None. A p
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by DalekBaldwin 8y ago
I've run into the opposite situation making me hesitant to trust legitimate correspondence with my own banks. The past few times I had to take care of something over the phone, they did not ask for anything that could reasonably confir
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by DalekBaldwin 9y ago
The fundamental reason for worsening subway service in recent years may be more mundane than we assumed: https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/03/13/the-trains-are-slowe... It was slowly driving me insane at my l
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by DalekBaldwin 9y ago
And its ultimate goal is, of course, to convert all of the mass in the universe into paperclips: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
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by DalekBaldwin 9y ago
My laptop can run computationally-intensive physics simulations and play streaming hi-def video with no problem, but if I click a link to a mainstream news article it just about keels over and dies. How did our grandparents ever manage to l
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by DalekBaldwin 9y ago
When the experience is amplified by homoiconic data structures and structural editing, yes -- exploratory, ephemeral metaprogramming is a breeze. Compound Clojure data literals have a fully readable print representation that can be generica
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by DalekBaldwin 9y ago
It's included in disc 2 of the re-release.
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by DalekBaldwin 9y ago
My default is Fiona. It seems like the cadences of a Scottish accent help mask the shortcomings of TTS technology.
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by DalekBaldwin 9y ago
For the curious: it's difficult to find that particular demo on the web now, but the system didn't look too much different from its earlier incarnation at Microsoft in the '90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by DalekBaldwin 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...
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by DalekBaldwin 10y ago
> It won't be seen as a safety net to follow their ambition Well then, a basic income only given to the ambitious wouldn't be a universal basic income, would it?
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by DalekBaldwin 10y ago
And yet, when it comes to cartoons that have been on the air for multiple decades, they almost always create something more entertaining with a production schedule of six days than The Simpsons can create with a production schedule of six m
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by DalekBaldwin 10y ago
As I followed the links in the article, and the links those links linked to, I noticed that none of them report the gender breakdown among those who have never had sex. In the surveys I've seen before, the average number of reported fe
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Visualizing photons in orbit around a black hole (2016)(duetosymmetry.com)
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by DalekBaldwin 10y ago
I think this kind of response reinforces the cult-like image brought up elsewhere in this thread. The social rules within the Recurse Center have little bearing on an external discussion about the Recurse Center on an independent forum. The
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by DalekBaldwin 10y ago
> So what are macros? All they are is read packaged up nicely into formal system. Macroexpansion happens during a different phase altogether, and would work exactly the same even if programmers had no access to the reader at all. The rea
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by DalekBaldwin 10y ago
It might have to do with the low resolution of the background image. The small drops produce stronger distortion, compressing a large region of the image into a smaller area, while the large drops faithfully reproduce the blurriness of the
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by DalekBaldwin 10y ago
CL is designed so that code written for earlier Lisp dialects can run with little or no modification, which means there's a lot of bloat and historical baggage in the core `common-lisp` package. But even if that weren't the case,
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by DalekBaldwin 11y ago
How do they get so confused about it? Is it because Java also allows overloading, which is a sort of static multiple dispatch?
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by DalekBaldwin 11y ago
I thought they were trying to allay people's fears of their self-driving cars going full Skynet, but now I realize I probably misinterpreted what they meant by "the other way around": "We leave no person unturned, to cre

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